That’s believable enough.īut it doesn’t matter now because then was then and now is now and the Dem Party didn’t run Al Gore for President in 2020.Īnother reason - and ultimately the real reason this Pentagon Pigeon won’t fly, is that there hasn’t been a valid public election in this country since 1852. We can believe that Gore was cheated out of the 2000 election by the Bush Machine. The Dem Lobby that is smart enough to know that Joe-the-Thug has gone too far are trying to pull their coals out of the fire and trying to find excuses for doing it.īut- “Al Gore won the 2000 Election so he is the rightful President now!”- really? This reflects rival elements in the military fighting with each other and trying to jockey into a position of plausible authority in the public’s eye. To prevent war with Russia over this and restore normal diplomatic relations with Ukraine, Biden and Harris have been removed and -get this- Al Gore has been inaugurated as “President” in place of Biden, and the rationale is that this is okay, because the 2000 Election was stolen from Gore by the Bush organization. Joe Biden’s Administration hired 20,000 Mercenaries to go in and try to topple the Ukrainian Government- unsuccessfully.Ģ. Today’s patchwork of military disinformation and scuttlebutt (more butt than scuttle) includes the following:ġ. I am afraid we are entering the ugly stage.
Mostly it’s just talk of a wild and intentionally inflated form, full of threats and wheedling and counter-threats and more wheedling.īut when fraud is involved and things that actually cause harm to people, all this offer and counter-offer politesse turns ugly and things get dicey. I offer to cut off your head, feed it to my pigs and hang your naked decapitated body at the nearest crossroad….Īnd on and on like this. You offer to cut off my head and feed it to your dog. Everything.Īny offer is possible, no matter how big, how small or how outrageous. In the world of commerce everything is negotiable. I’d also tell you to run out and buy tickets to Dunham’s second show at the Great Allentown Fair slated for Sunday, Sept.Paul Stramer / Paul Stramer Anna Von Reitz Oh, I could go on about Peanut–his misadventures with the proprietor of a Chinese restaurant and the fact that “Taste of China,” when pronounced a certain way, sounds like. in a box! I put them near Walter so when he wakes up it scares the crap out of him!”Īt that moment, Dunham throws his voice to the trunk and is an alarmed Walter, upset and then fussing about finding the box. Walter: You have to clap! He has no hands!
Walter: Achmed likes infomercials, so I bought him a Clapper.Īfter laughing maniacally, Walter reveals that he purchased the classic TV sale item as a practical joke. Walter, Dunham’s crotchety retiree, took his own jabs at Achmed, built from a skeleton purchased at a costume shop. His silicone sidekicks have seemingly developed actual relationships with each other, often sharing aspects of their lives in a storage trunk. He can’t come.”ĭunham’s genius reaches beyond a single puppet. Killing ’em is good.Īchmed did slay the audience, however, with a sympathetic play on the joke about a dog with no legs.Īfter some Darth Vaderesque threats to Dunham’s good health, Achmed finally gave up the punch line: “It doesn’t matter what you call him. Dunham added a modern twist to Abbott and Costello’s “Who's On First” routine with help from Achmed, who, although “dead,” continues his vigil to seek and destroy infidels– including Dunham himself and his Allentown audience.Īchmed: I think I am enjoying being a comedian.ĭunham: No, bombing is bad for a comedian. 1, 2009, on the Great Allentown (Pa.) Fair’s grandstand stage.Īlthough the puppets–all handmade by Dunham–may be new, many jokes were steeped in comic history. The expert showman–whose gross income seconds only Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock–made his Lehigh Valley debut Tuesday, Sept. Ventriloquism has come a long way since Mortimer Snerd and Charlie McCarthy.įrom Vaudevillian beginnings with Edgar Bergen’s mild-mannered moron and monocled gent, the art of throwing one’s voice has evolved into contemporary characters, including Achmed the Dead Terrorist Peanut, a lewd purple humanoid Jose Jalapeno, a racy hot pepper and Walter, a mercilessly insulting old man.Ĭomedian Jeff Dunham developed the personality-plus puppets after learning ventriloquism from a recording-and-puppet set his parents gave him as a boy. Lehigh Valley premier at the Grand Stand onĪllentown, Pa. Jeff Dunham and his pithy puppets made their Terrorist threatens infidels at the Great Allentownįair. “But I want to keeeeeel them!” Achmed the Dead